the turn of the century

Moustache Connoisseur

This page is dedicated to the wonderful moustachio’d gentlemen pictured here. You were dapper, indeed!

Charlie Chaplin’s famous, instantly recognizable moustacheArchduke Franz Ferdinand – the man whose assassination touched off a powder keg that led to World War 1The ever-moustachio’d President William Howard Taft, circa 1912Library of Congress photo of a stern moustachio’d manThis John Wilkes Booth-ish looking fellow comes to us from the NYC police museum, and goes by the name James H. Dix. His crime? Sneak thiefStanford White’s moustache is pretty much the last word in moustachesWorld War I mailman and le moustacheA cowboy depicted in a very early Edison film, moustache and guns a-blazin’!Mark Twain turn of the century writer moustache

E.M. Forster had a very decent looking moustacheLimp moustache, creepy mugshot – accompanying notes say, “May be cruel”Theodore Roosevelt, circa 1898. United States’ most fascinating president.A portrait of a gentleman, circa 1900, with an impressive moustache, and…the profile of the gentleman, the better to see his moustache!